individuals, and robustness in the face of extreme diversity thereof

Posted Sep 24, 2018 5:18 UTC (Mon) by Garak (guest, #99377)
In reply to: Trying to get STACKLEAK into the kernel by roc
Parent article: Trying to get STACKLEAK into the kernel

It's disingenuous to refer to Linus as just "an individual" in the community.

lkundrak was clearly enough describing a general logical proof involving sets and individuals. Extrapolating the situation to the general, not referring to the specific instance. Thus not disingenuous.

I too think that a significant aspect of this is the 'specialness' of the 'supreme leader'(core trademark holder). At the end of the day, anyone is free to fork linux, call it anything else, and do whatever they want. It's not like anything Linus Torvalds does or does not do interferes with anyone's freedom to do that. Given that dynamic (the core dynamic of FOSS), this doesn't seem very important to me (given the context of billions if not trillions of processors out there running 'linux' and keeping the world turning)